US 12,427,178 B2
Composition for maintaining or improving oral immune function
Takumi Morikawa, Saga (JP); Takashi Iwamoto, Saga (JP); Makoto Suzuki, Saga (JP); Shinichiro Takashima, Saga (JP); and Tomoyasu Kamiya, Saga (JP)
Assigned to TOYO SHINYAKU CO., LTD., Fukuoka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/909,881
Filed by TOYO SHINYAKU CO., LTD., Fukuoka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 24, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/013812
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/210232, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-059529 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0190855 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. A61K 36/00 (2006.01); A61K 36/8998 (2006.01); A61P 37/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61K 36/8998 (2013.01) [A61P 37/02 (2018.01)] 1 Claim
 
1. A method for maintaining or improving mucosal immune function, comprising administering a composition comprising young barley grass ground product to a human continuously for 2 weeks or more, in an amount so that the human ingests 0.25 g or more and 10 g or less of the young barley grass ground product per day,
wherein:
a content of the young barley grass ground product in the composition is 1 to 100% by mass,
the composition comprises 1 to 70% by mass of dietary fiber derived from young barley grass in terms of dry mass, and
the composition is a powdered beverage.